Nursery-gate.



PATENTED DEC. 18, 1904.

0.11. WRIGHT NURSERY GATE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 10, 1904.

N0 MODEL.

NITED STATES Patented December 13, 190%.

CHARLES H. WVRIGHT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

NURSERY-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 777,322, dated December 13, 1904.

Application filed March 10, 1904. Serial No. 197,499. (No model.)

To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAnLns H. WRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful N ursery- Gate, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to provide a nursery-gate for employment more especially at the head of a stairway and of an improved construction whereby it may be furnished ready for use, be readily placed in position Without the necessity of doing injury to the walls or other permanent parts of a stairway, be adjustable to stairs of different widths, be readily remov able and replaceable, and operate when in position as an eifective safeguard for its purpose.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a broken perspective View of the upper portion of a stairway, showing my improved gate in position; and Figs. 2 and 3 are enlarged sections taken, respectively, at lines 2 and 3 on Fig. 1.

The main frame or body portion A of the gate has stiles a at, upper and lower rails b c, strengthened by an inclined brace-bar d, and parallel slats e. A is a gate-extension frame having a stile f, upper and lower rails b 0, and a slat a. The rails b c are adapted to rest flatwise against the rails b 0 and are each formed with longitudinally-extending slots 6 0 at which they are adjustably fastened to the rails 5 o by means of bolts g passing through the rails Z) 0, stile a, and one slat e. The bolts 9 carry nuts whereby the rails may be loosened to permit the extension A to be moved in or out to shorten or lengthen the gate. The slat e is fastened to the rails by the bolts, whereby it may be removed for a shorter gate. One or more additional slats (2 may be fastened in the same manner to the rails when the gate is lengthened. The stile a of the frame A is fastened, by means of spring-hinges it, to a post or upright B, and the stile 7" is adapted to close against a stop-plate f on the upright or post C.

D D are retainers, preferably in the form of socket-pieces, adapted to receive the lower ends of the posts B C, and E E are supports or trays, preferably in the form of loops, through which the posts fit along their lower end portions beneath the gate. The supports E are in practice attached to the floor at the upper end of the stairway, and the retainers D are secured upon the step next below said floor or landing. The supports and retainers may be permanently secured in place by screws or the like and should be placed as near as possible to the opposite ends of the steps to be out of the way when the gate posts are re moved therefrom.

The gate is placed in position by passing the posts at their lower ends through the supports 6 into the retainers D. For greater security thumb-screws or the like A: may be provided to fasten the lower ends of the posts removably in the retainers. By loosening the nuts on the bolts 9 the gate may be expanded or contracted, as desired, and then fastened as adjusted by tightening the said nuts.

The attachments D E should be so placed upon the stairway as not to interfere with the use of the stairs when the gate is not in position and so placed they would be hardly noticeable. They are capable of holding the gateposts firmly in place as required.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A nursery-gate comprising, in combination, a main gate-frame, an adjustable gate-frame extension, a post to which the said main frame is hinged, a post against which the gate closes, socket-pieces adapted for attachment upon a step to receive the lower ends of the posts, and loop-pieces adapted for attachment to the step next above said socket pieces, and through which the posts pass near their lower end portions, all constructed and arranged to operate substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

CHAS. H. WRIGHT.

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